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The 2025 Core77 Design Awards Speculative Winners

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 15:38:40 +0000

The 2025 Professional winner in the Speculative category is Plant Futures created by Annelie Berner in collaboration with Monika Seyfried and Variable Studio. This project imagines how the Circaea Alpina flower would response to climate change between 2023 through 2100. By rooting these changes in a familiar flower viewers can contemplate the broader implications of climate change.

The Student Speculative winner is Standard Singlish by Cun Jia Tan from National University of Singapore. This project challenges viewers to reconsider the status of Singlish, the common language that unites the diverse groups of people within Singapore, by introducing a new Singlish typographical system together with a set of educational materials that reimagine a future where Singlish is formalized.

The jury team for Speculative category was led by Jury Captain Tiange Wang a Software Design Lead at IDEO. Wang curated a jury team which included Jaka Neon the Director of Design at Bird Buddy, I-Yang Huang the Co-founder of VLab, Crystal Jow the Co-founder of SIXA and Pedro Cruz an Associate Professor at Northeastern University.

The 2025 Speculative category recognizes future-oriented projects, whether physically or digitally produced, designed for the purpose of cultural commentary, intervention, or exploration, or created as speculative design for a client or educational institution. Projects include alternative structures, device protoypes for social needs, and hypothetical wearable implants.

Speculative Design Award Honorees

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The 2025 Core77 Design Awards Sustainability Winners

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 15:38:40 +0000

The 2025 Professional winner in the Sustainability is the FREITAG Mono[PA6]: Circular Backpack from FRIETAG lab ag and the team comprised of Jeffrey Siu, Tu Van Giang, Ilke Tokdede, Inge Hettich, Silvio Trionfini, and Denise Eugster. The new Mono[PA6] Backpack is circular—from the fabric to the zippers and buckles, it's made from a single material and can be easily recycled in its entirety at the end of its life. By launching this innovative product, FREITAG is closing a material loop and taking a significant step towards a circular economy.

The Student Sustainability winner is Aeropod from Wangyang Hu, Ifeoluwa Afolayan, Yuchen Cai, and Alex Clark at the Imperial College London & Royal College of Art. Aeropod is a biodegradable, seed-like device designed to regenerate soil from within. Aeropod allows Farmers to heal their land without losing income—unlocking a future where productivity and regeneration go hand-in-hand.

Kara Pecknold the VP of Regenerative Design at frog led the jury team for Sustainability. Her team included Nicole Miller the Managing Partner at Biomimicry 3.8, Binit Vasa the Workplace Strategy and Culture Manager at LEGO, Kajsa Westman the Experience Design Manager at Inter IKEA Group, and Tom Peach a Product Director at frog.

The 2025 Sustainability category recognizes any designed product, service or system tackling issues around sustainability in a thoughtful, research-backed manner through strategies ranging from materials, production methods, efficient systems, packaging and shipping.

Sustainability Award Honorees

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The 2025 Core77 Design Awards Design for Social Impact Winners

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 15:38:40 +0000

The 2025 Professional winner in the Design for Social Innovation is The Lotus Ring from Julia Lemle at Lotus. With this ring you can control anything—lights, fans, appliances, even TVs. With this product you can convert any space into an accessible space in seconds—and you can take it with you wherever you go.

The Design for Social Innovation Student category goes to Chelsea Greenwell at Academy of Art University for Bio Lumi. Bio Lumi is safe and accessible lighting, harnessing the same technology designed by nature for those that need it most. Light is created by adding an effervescent tablet from a stainless-steel tablet container, housed in the lamp, which is dropped into water creating light for 20+ hours.

The jury team for Design for Social Impact was led by Valerie Kramis the co-founder at Agenda28. Kramis was joined by Cecile Rivera the Founder & Lead Consultant at CRL Communications Consultants, and by Luis Acosta who is a Country Manager at 47 Brand.

The 2025 Design for Social Impact celebrates projects designed to directly benefit social, humanitarian, community or environmental needs including social impact work for community or environmental impact initiatives, products for underrepresented communities, distribution systems, disaster relief, and the fight for racial justice and humanitarian efforts.

Design For Social Impact Award Honorees

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The 2025 Core77 Design Awards Furniture & Lighting Winners

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 14:02:26 +0000

The 2025 Professional winner in Furniture & Lighting was AGNI from Jose Cabrita at Contexte. This collection is based on a single element that can be used in different ways allowing that element to become a bench, a stool, a side table, or a shelf. The use of molded plywood allows manufacturing to make one mold that becomes multiple objects.

The Student Furniture & Lighting winner is SOLI by Milú Brunell from Savannah College of Art & Design. SOLI is an outdoor lighting solution powered by the microbial energy of soil, blending sustainability, innovation, and design. SOLI harnesses the natural decomposition process occurring within soil, converting microbial activity into light.

The jury team for Furniture & Lighting was led by Michaele Simmering the co-founder and Creative Director at Kalon. Simmering was joined by Norman Teague a designer and educator at Norman Teague Design Studios, Bec Brittain who is the Principal at Bec Brittain Studio, Christopher Specce the Associate Professor and Department Head in the Department of Furniture Design at the Rhode Island School of Design, and Bowen Liu the Creative Director at Bowen Liu Studio.

The 2025 Furniture & Lighting category honors furniture and lighting products or systems for private, public, commercial or industrial use including home or public furniture and seating, office systems, lighting, and workstations.

Furniture & Lighting Award Honorees

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The 2025 Core77 Design Awards Home & Living Winners

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 14:02:26 +0000

The 2025 Professional winner in Home & Living is Loka Chai Maker by Jon Marshall in collaboration with Chifen Cheng, Shing Lo, Amelia Kociolkowska, Vincent Fan, Harc Lee, Andrew Aitken, Nikhil Shah, and Anish Shonpal at Pentagram London. Their goal was to develop a device that makes chai quicker, cleaner and easier than anything on the market, and solve an array of issues: frequent boil over, constant monitoring, and messy clean-ups in the process. The design has met with success due to its functionality, ergonomics and aesthetics.

The Student Home & Living winner is Sirocco Hands-free Hairdryer by Yajurvi Haritwal from ArtCenter College of Design. Sirocco is a hands-free hair dryer designed to be easily accessible by everyone regardless of their level of upper limb mobility.

The jury team for Home & Living was led by Mitch Heinrich the principal designer at Copper. Heinrich was joined by Dierdre Shea who is Co-Founder and Principal Designer at Fun Stuff Design, Pushan Panda a Design engineer at CopperHome, and Gamal Prather the Minister of Culture at MTRL objects.

The 2025 Home & Living recognizes consumer products or services designed to enhance comfort, convenience, security, and sustainability in residential spaces. Products and services can integrate digital tools, smart devices, and automation systems, making everyday life more efficient and enjoyable from home management, entertainment to security and energy efficiency included are home accessories, appliances, home electronics, smart home products, and security systems.

Home & Living Award Honorees

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Costco embraces the two-tier economy with its new early shopping perk

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000

It can be easy for consumers to feel like we now live in a two-tier economy: one geared toward showering the wealthy with perks, extras, and exclusive access, and the other for us normies. But one place you might not expect that is at Costco.

Which might explain the mixed reaction to the recent news that, starting June 30, Costco U.S. locations that now open at 10 a.m. will open an hour earlier Sunday through Friday—but only for certain people. Holders of its Executive Member card, which at $130 a year costs double the standard Gold Star membership fee, are allowed into the store early. (Those fees are up from $120 and $55, respectively, as of last year.) And locations that already open at 9 will now also make that first hour Executive only. (Saturdays it’s just for Executive members for the first half hour of operation.) “All members will be welcome to shop starting at 10 a.m. Monday through Friday and Sunday, and at 9:30 a.m. Saturday,” an announcement on Instagram explained.

Some responses to that post suggested that this new Executive perk came across like second-tier treatment for devoted Costco shoppers. “Why reduce the value of a regular membership for US members?” one asked. Extended hours “should be for all members,” another argued. “As members we all pay to shop there,” a third added. “Inconveniencing your loyal customers for 30 mins to an hour is actually not cool.”

It might seem counterintuitive that a brand so fundamentally tied to bargain hunting, volume discounts, and savvy shopping would have an elite membership level at all. While Costco’s product mix has come to include items targeting higher-end consumers—from fancy champagne to Rolex watches to actual gold bars—the Costco image is tied to the idea that finding a great deal is the ultimate equalizer. The appeal of, say, the chain’s famous $1.50 hot dog cuts across class lines (at least symbolically).

Costco has long enjoyed a broad and loyal fan base, and over the past year its reputation has seemed particularly virtuous. Its in-house Kirkland brand, already popular, has become arguably even more appealing as shoppers contend with tariff-war uncertainties. More broadly, Fast Company recently named CEO Ron Vechris “Visionary of the Year” for standing by diversity, equity, and inclusion policies that the company believes are good for business. As Target and other rivals have been dinged for seeming to cave to political pressure, Costco has gotten more popular. Its sales were up 8% in the most recent quarter, just shy of $61 billion and ahead of analyst estimates.

But that includes its Executive tier: It turns out that a remarkable 47% of Costco members pay extra for the black-card Executive level. This currently entails a 2% reward on qualified purchases—meaning that it’s actually possible to earn back the extra fee cost if you spend enough—and discounts on some Costco services and Costco Travel deals. In addition to the exclusive shopping time, Costco is also adding a $10 credit for certain home delivery orders (a segment the chain has been pushing, including an Instacart partnership) for Executive members.

Maybe more to the point, Costco rival Sam’s Club’s elite tier already includes exclusive shopping time (and Costco itself actually had an earlier version of the perk that was discontinued in the peak pandemic era). And notably, Costco has said its Executive customers account for about 73% of its global sales.

In other words, given what those elite, black-card-carrying customers contribute to Costco’s business, maybe they deserve more special treatment. That’s certainly how some reacted to that Instagram post announcing the new hours. “Nice added benefit to those with the Executive membership,” wrote one member. “Hope to see more distinguishing benefits down the road.” Another added: “Finally, something exclusive for Executive members.” Others sounded a more appreciative note. “Fresh morning hot dogs,” one wrote, “for me and my black card!” Such are the privileges of the Costco elite.

A rare Frank Lloyd Wright house hits the market

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 09:45:00 +0000

For architecture enthusiasts, a longtime dream may have just come within reach: A Frank Lloyd Wright home just hit the market, and it could be yours for a cool $2.5 million.

The home, located in Jackson, Mississippi, was designed by Wright in 1948—when the late architect was 81—for a local oil speculator named J. Willis Hughes and his family. Originally called the Hughes House, the home has since adopted the nickname “Fountainhead,” courtesy of an elaborate backyard water feature and pool. (Wright was also said to have served as inspiration for Ayn Rand when she wrote her classic novel of the same name.) The three-bedroom home has more than 3,500 square feet of interior space and a scenic view from its position tucked into the wooded hillside. And, while Fountainhead may boast a hefty price tag today, it was originally made to be affordable.

[Screenshot: Sotheby’s]

The home is one of just around 60 houses that are considered “Usonian,” a style created and coined by Wright in the 1940s and ’50s. Usonian homes were Wright’s answer to the postwar era: Designed to be accessible to the American middle class, they tend to make use of simple layouts, open floor plans, and natural materials. Given that Wright’s total portfolio of designs includes more than 1,000 buildings, this style is now considered quite rare.

When approaching the home’s design, Wright took his cues from the surrounding environment. The contours of the building site determined the home’s parallelogram form, which is characterized by a multitude of low, horizontal leading lines. Furnishings like sofas, tables, beds, and dressers are all seamlessly built into the home’s auburn wood walls.

“The parallelogram design is etched in the floors, and dictates the placement of walls, the size of the doors, and the shape of the spaces,” the home’s listing on Sotheby’s International reads. It goes on to note that Fountainhead was built with no stud walls in the house, no Sheetrock, brick, tile, or paint and “boasts of exquisite, exceptionally durable Heart Tidewater Red Cypress wood for the walls and ceilings.”

According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, the house saw some fairly significant wear and tear during the 25 years that it served as the Hughes family residence. However, the most recent owner, architect Robert Parker Adams, alongside his former wife, Mary, devoted years to restoring the home to its former glory. Adams has lived at the property since 1979.

“I’ve been here 40-something years; I’ve had my experience,” Adams told The Journal, adding that he hopes to share his experience and knowledge with the next owner.

Dorset Beach House: A Sustainable Coastal Renovation by Architecture for London

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 09:32:17 +0000

Located on the seafront of Ballard Estate in Swanage, Dorset, the Dorset Beach House is a masterclass in thoughtful coastal renovation. Designed by Architecture for London, this project brings new life to an early 20th-century timber-framed beach house with a sustainable, fabric-first retrofit strategy.

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This pouch could be the Zyn of caffeine

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 09:30:00 +0000

There’s a new energy brand on the market, and it’s betting that the next frontier in caffeine isn’t coffee, soda, or any other drink, for that matter. It’s the pouch.

Wip is a caffeine pouch, available in 100-milligram and 200-milligram strengths, that’s designed to be popped between your lip and gum to provide a quick dose of what it describes as “natural caffeine.” The pouches come in candy-like flavors, including mint, sour cherry, orange citrus, and strawberry kiwi, all packaged in a brightly colored, hockey-puck-size container.

If any of that sounds familiar, that’s probably because, at least in form factor, it’s pretty similar to the nicotine pouch brand Zyn, which exploded in popularity after gaining traction on TikTok, primarily among young users. Meanwhile, over the past few years, the caffeine market has also been buzzing with a similar demographic.

Energy drinks have gone mainstream, appearing on menus at Starbucks, Dunkin’, and Dutch Bros. Older brands like Jolt Cola and Rockstar have gotten supercharged facelifts, while the newcomer Alani Nu notched more than a billion dollars in sales in just one year.

From 2018 to 2023, energy drink sales jumped by 73%. In all, the global caffeine market is expected to reach $28.95 billion by 2030.

Wip is betting on the idea that if consumers are gravitating toward a pouch for their nicotine boost, it might be a major new unlock for the caffeine industry, too.

[Photo: courtesy Wip]

The origin of a new form of caffeine

The idea for Wip was conceived by David Cynamon, a Canadian entrepreneur who is now the brand’s chairman and a major stakeholder. According to Wip CEO Richard Mumby, Cynamon “understood the ubiquity of pouches in other form factors, mainly in nicotine,” and recognized an opportunity to expand the consumer category into caffeine.

The brand debuted last summer under the name LF*GO! (alongside a marketing partnership with Mike Tyson), a move that Mumby describes as more of a market test than an official launch. “In four months, they got really meaningful traction and realized they needed to bring in the right team to realize the full opportunity of creating an altogether new category for energy and caffeine,” he says.

Mumby stepped in as CEO last October. Given the inspiration that Wip is pulling from the nicotine industry, Mumby’s previous experience makes sense for this new role: From 2014 to 2017, he served as CMO for Pax Labs, the umbrella company for Juul and Pax vapes.

In less than a year, Mumby’s team at Wip worked to create an entirely fresh identity for the brand before it hit the market in early June. The new branding takes a page out of Red Bull’s iconic playbook, positioning the product as a tool for athletes—and, like Zyn, also a cool accessory.

[Photo: courtesy Wip]

Is the pouch the new energy drink?

From an outside perspective, it’s easy to see why consumers might choose a nicotine pouch over a cigarette: You can pop one on the go, it has no odor, and, more recently, has become a kind of status-signaling habit among its young male target audience.

[Photo: courtesy Wip]

It’s less clear why one might abandon their daily cup of coffee in favor of a caffeine pouch. Mumby’s pitch for creating this new consumption category comes down to what he calls “the three Cs”: confidence, convenience, and cost.

He argues that consumers want to have confidence in the quality of their caffeine (a need that Wip purports to meet by deriving its caffeine from green coffee beans); they want the convenience of a hands-free caffeine option; and they want a cheaper caffeine fix (a 15-pouch pack costs about $8, or about 60 cents per serving).

“For an emerging brand or category, sometimes you have to go to the periphery to find these unmet needs,” Mumby says. “But in caffeine, they’re really at the heart of the product.”

[Photo: courtesy Wip]

Branding the caffeine pouch

To get the public on board with this novel form of caffeine intake, Mumby says he had a few main goals with the new branding. First, he needed to clearly articulate what caffeine pouches actually are, and establish a brand name that consumers could easily remember. He also needed a high-energy look to compete in an already saturated category. In collaboration with the branding agency Studio George, his team checked the first box with “Wip,” a name designed to be short, zingy, and catchy.

“You can’t will consumers to do it, but I wouldn’t be disappointed if I heard somebody walk into a bodega and say, ‘Do you have any mint Wips,’ or refer to having to ‘Wip’ their way through a workout,” Mumby says.

For the wordmark, Studio George opted for a forward-leaning, slanted bold font with jagged edges, meant to convey a sense of momentum. The packaging features flavor-signaling neon colors, metallic silver, and pops of energetic yellow, clearly evoking the world of sports branding.

Mumby imagines Wip as a product that could see mass adoption, but it’s specifically marketed as a companion for athletes and others whose pastimes involve using their hands. Someone headed to the gym, for example, might prefer a Wip over the “cumbersome” proposition of packing energy drinks in their bag, Mumby explains. “Also, a cup of coffee on a construction site is hard to put down and not have dust get into it,” he says. “If you work with both of your hands, you need dexterity. The form factor just lends itself to some obvious solutions.”

On first glance, Wip does look strikingly like a nicotine product, especially given its rounded packaging and hardcore aesthetic. Mumby says the brand’s main strategy to ensure consumers don’t get confused is to incorporate clear signals at the point of sale, including by labeling the pouches as “clean caffeine” on display units. Currently, Wip is available online, on Amazon, at convenience stores in Florida and Arizona, and at some smaller athletic stores across the country.

[Photo: courtesy Wip]

I Wip my way through this article

Before writing this story, I gave Wip a try for the first time—specifically, the 100-milligram mint flavor. While I’ve never tried a Zyn, and therefore can’t compare the two, this experience was akin to sucking on an abnormally sweet Altoid, or maybe a less-powerful Listerine strip. It wasn’t unpleasant (and it did prevent the onset of a morning caffeine headache), but it also wasn’t my personal favorite way to consume caffeine. Still, I could see how the form factor might be convenient as a pre-workout boost or a pick-me-up on the job.

[Photo: courtesy Wip]

My main concern with Wip, actually, is how easy it is to consume. One of the 200-milligram pouches is equivalent to about two cups of coffee. A standard 8.4-ounce Red Bull contains just 80 milligrams of caffeine. Pop two max-strength Wips, and you’ve just hit the maximum amount of caffeine that the Mayo Clinic defines as safe for the average adult, likely in significantly less time than it would require to chug five Red Bulls.

When asked about Wip’s safety, Mumby says the brand’s website and social media sets out clear guidelines on safe caffeine consumption, including the 400-milligram limit. It’s worth noting, however, that there’s no such information on the package itself. While I didn’t experience any adverse effects from my 100-milligram Wip, I’m not sure I want to know what it might feel like to mindlessly have one too many. For now, I’m sticking with coffee.

Nike and Levi’s is a match made in denim sportswear heaven

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 09:00:00 +0000

In the fictional town Levi’s and Nike created to promote their latest collaboration of denim outerwear and Air Max 95s, the paperboy still delivers the morning newspaper by bike (with an arm like a cannon, by the way), and the neighbor out walking her dog just so happens to be the WNBA’s Dallas Wings star Paige Bueckers. Welcome to Blue Arc County.

[Photo: Levi’s]

For their latest joint collection, out in July, the brands are releasing a special edition of the Nike Air Max 95 made from Levi’s denim in a neutral matte white; black; indigo denim; and full-on Canadian tuxedo made from the Levi’s x Nike Trucker Jacket and matching Baggy Jean. Like its jeans, Levi’s sneakers with Nike feature a single Levi’s Red Tab under the Nike Swoosh on the right shoe only. The jacket sports a big Nike wordmark and Swoosh logo lockup in white on the back, plus co-branded brown leather patches.

[Photo: Levi’s]

The world Levi’s and Nike created for the collection is charming but hard to place. In promotional photos and social media shots featuring Bueckers, hip-hop artist Larry June, NFL player Keon Coleman, and designer Daniel Buezo, it’s a mix of rural country, Midwest suburb, and deep South. The local barbecue joint is staged like the sort of roadside, hole-in-the-wall treasure that draws in diners far and wide, and the Blue Arc County logo shows an evergreen tree line that evokes Nike’s Oregon roots. It’s Anywhere, U.S.A., built for promoting two iconic American brands at a time when heartland aesthetic is ascendent.

[Photo: Levi’s]

This isn’t Nike’s first foray into “jeakers” with Levi’s. They teamed up for apparel like a Nike SB x Levi’s 511 Skateboarding Collection in 2012 and Nike Air Force 1s by Levi’s in 2019. But their 2025 collab uses lighter-wash denim for the jacket and jeans and a lower-profile shoe that feels less like a novelty than some past attempts. It’s a simple capsule, but they got the details right.

[Photo: Levi’s]

The announcement was timed just before Nike reported its quarterly earnings June 26. The company said earlier this year it expects a sales decline, and its planned NikeSkims launch has been postponed, but a highly anticipated collab with the denim brand is good news.

Levi’s parent company, Levi Strauss, beat expectations earlier this year, and CEO Michelle Gass said on the company’s April earnings call that new products were “resonating and driving market share gains.” She also referenced a “robust product pipeline” that she said will fuel growth in the company’s denim and nondenim business well into 2026.

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Trump supporters have a new daddy

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 21:30:00 +0000

Donald Trump is no stranger to selling unusual merch. The President has been known to slap his likeness on Bibles, guitars, and gold-plated phones if it’ll bring in a bit of cash. Just last year, The Trump Organization’s licensing deals netted Trump tens of millions of dollars in profits. But today, Trump has outdone himself with what has to be his strangest piece of merch ever: a T-shirt featuring his own mugshot captioned with the word Daddy (in call caps).

The shirt, featured in an email newsletter sent from the Trump National Committee JFC to subscribers on Thursday, appears to be a limited-time offering separate from the official Trump store. It’s being sold through its own webpage with the notice, “These are going to sell FAST. HURRY, claim your shirt today,” as well as the somewhat more unsettling all-caps call to action “CLAIM DADDY SHIRT.”

[Screenshot: Winred]

The merch-ification of Trump’s mug shot is a fairly tired tack at this point, given that the President has already sold pieces of the suit worn in the image, reprinted it on rally posters, and used it as inspiration for his official portrait. Earlier this month, Cara Finnegan, author of the book Photographic Presidents: Making History from Daguerreotype to Digital, told Fast Company that the mug shot has been used so often by Trump’s administration that it “arguably is his presidential portrait” at this point.

However, the use of the moniker “Daddy” is altogether new. It seems to be a nod to a comment made by NATO Secretary Mark Rutte on Wednesday, who appeared to give Trump the title when he said, “Daddy has to sometimes use strong language.” The media (and, now, it seems, the Trump administration) took the comment as a reference to a viral moment earlier in the week when Trump casually dropped the f-bomb on camera.

Rutte has since denied that the term was directed at Trump—but, unfortunately, that didn’t stop the White House from posting an edit of the President set to Usher’s sexual innuendo-laden R&B song, “Hey Daddy (Daddy’s Home).” Trump himself appeared to endorse Ritter’s use to the term “daddy” at a later press conference. Now, it seems, the Trump National Committee is shortening the lifecycle of real news-turned meme-turned merch. Mere hours after the initial stir around the “daddy” comment, it’s already a shirt.

It’s not entirely shocking to see Trump’s fundraising committee capitalize on this moment, given that his administration has already thrown convention to the wind by constantly glamorizing his mug shot. Still, this development is markedly more unusual—and if this flies as a kind of Presidential merch, we don’t want to know what might appear on a Trump shirt next.

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The 2025 Core77 Design Awards Lifestyle Accessories Winners

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 18:13:54 +0000

The 2025 Professional winner in Lifestyle Accessories is Aer1 System by Mark Wiggins in collaboration with Nathaniel Berman, JonPaul Turner, Scott Kingston, John Thorpe at Aerflo. The Aer1 system is a portable carbonation device consisting of three components: the Aer1 Carbonation Cap, the Aer1 Bottle, and the CO2 capsule. Users simply fill the bottle with water, load a capsule, and press the spritzing button at the top of the device to dispense CO2 and carbonate the water to their preference.

The Student Lifestyle Accessories winner is Sirocco Hands-free Hairdryer by Yajurvi Haritwal from ArtCenter College of Design. Sirocco is a hands-free hair dryer designed to be easily accessible by everyone regardless of their level of upper limb mobility.

The jury team for Lifestyle Accessories was led by Jury Captain Irina Kozlovskaya who is the Global Head of Industrial Design and CMF at ABB E-Mobility. Kozkivskaya's jury team included Annie Jean-Baptiste author of Building for Everyone and Founder and Director of Product Inclusion & Equity at Google, Kenneth Young the Founder and Creative Director at Now Studio, Quan Jasinski the Creative Director at Microsoft Surface Industrial Design, and Eliot Cohen Pirenne the Senior Design Director at Lululemon.

The 2025 Lifestyle Accessories recognizes consumer products intended for use in daily life. Personal or home items that combine functionality and style, designed to complement an individual's daily routine, support wellness, enhance comfort, improve convenience, organization, and aesthetics including handheld products, luggage, desktop toys, jewelry, handbags, apparel, water bottles, or wearable devices.

Lifestyle Accessories Award Honorees

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The 2025 Core77 Design Awards Sports & Outdoors Winners

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:36:31 +0000

The 2025 Professional winner in the Sports & Outdoors category is IXI Autonomous Golf Trolley created by the Future Wave team of Joachim Froment, Quentin Desclee, Thoma Velghe, and engineers at Botorincs. The iXi Golf Trolley offers a fully autonomous, self-driving solution that follows players seamlessly on the course. It solves the problem of manually pushing or pulling heavy golf trolleys, reducing physical strain and allowing golfers to focus entirely on their game.

The Student Sports & Outdoors winner is Ventus T&F Speedsuit by Jacob Kauff from the University of Oregon, Sports Product Design MSc. The Ventus T&F Speedsuit is a distance-specific track and field suit designed to address hot weather conditions expected at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. The Ventus speedsuit features small 3D-printed TPU blades, known as vortex generators, which help disrupt the air flow around the body, reducing aerodynamic drag.

The jury team for Sports & Outdoors category was led by Jury Captain Tyler Gilbert, the Design Director at Tyler Gilbert Design. His jury team included Greg Janky, the Principal Designer at Anvil Studios, Bridget Stephas, a Gear Designer at REI, and Kate Locke-Peck, the Director of Footwear Design at Brooks Running.

The 2025 Sports & Outdoors category celebrates consumer products or services created to encourage play, movement, or learning including toys, games, athletic equipment, athletic wear and accessories, and outdoor gear and equipment.

Sports & Outdoors Award Honorees

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The 2025 Core77 Design Awards Tools Winners

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:36:31 +0000

The 2025 Professional winner in the Tools category is Pella Steady Set Interior Installation System from the Pella Corporation. Created by the Pella Innovation Team the Steady Set interior installation is the first and only INTERIOR install system. It directly addresses the obstacles of unsafe, inconsistent, and time-consuming installation due to lack of opening accessibility. This system streamlines the installation process and answers the needs of professionals in the field whether it's avoiding dangerously tall ladders, uneven ground, weather delays or quality and consistency issues with traditional installs.

The Student Tools winner is Spark by Lenz Connor Bätzing and Mårten Malmnäs at the Umeå Institute of Design. Spark is designed to extend learning beyond the classroom, supporting children with homework, tutoring, or even playful explorations. Spark uses laser projections to create an immersive, hands-on learning environment in combination with analog materials like schoolbooks and notebooks.

The jury team for Tools was led by Jury Captain Irina Kozlovskaya who is the Global Head of Industrial Design and CMF at ABB E-Mobility. Kozkivskaya's jury team included Annie Jean-Baptiste author of Building for Everyone and Founder and Director of Product Inclusion & Equity at Google, Kenneth Young the Founder and Creative Director at Now Studio, Quan Jasinski the Creative Director at Microsoft Surface Industrial Design, and Eliot Cohen Pirenne the Senior Design Director at Lululemon.

The 2025 Tools category features only consumer products or services designed for individual use with the intention of improving efficiency and productivity, supporting craft, making and personal building this includes hardware tools, productivity applications, educational tools.

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The 2025 Core77 Design Awards Toys & Play Winners

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:36:31 +0000

The 2025 Professional winner in the Toys & Play is The Handheld Patternmaking Loom from Lauren Puchowski at Boomloom. Our patented design re-imagines the pattern-making loom completely with just two pieces and a fast set-up it uses an intuitive fingertip motion. A rotating bar snaps into place under the threads on a metal frame, as the bar is rotated, it separates different combinations of threads. Users weave a row by passing the yarn through the space between the threads. Rotate the bar one position forward, or back, then weave the next row.

The Student Toys & Play winner is Rockid by Youran Fan, Qingyue Zhuang, Jiayi Wei, Ruiran Liu, and Yixun Bai. Rockid is a smart, modular rock-climbing wall that encourages kids to stay active and healthy while developing their physical strength and motor skills. It boasts an innovative quick-release mechanism in the climbing holds, making it easy for parents or guardians to set up various climbing routes for different challenges.

The jury team for Toys & Play category was led by Jury Captain Rafael Atijas, the Founder and CEO of Loog. The Atijas jury team included Joaquín Uribe, the Founder and CEO of Proyector, and Lucía Guidali, a Play Designer.

The 2025 Toys & Play category consists of consumer products designed for children or adults for the purpose of activating play and creative exploration and includes children's toys, board games, art supplies, DIY kits, educational toys, electronic toys, musical instruments.

Toys & Play Award Honorees

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The 2025 Core77 Design Awards Branding & Identity Winners

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:36:31 +0000

Winning the Professional Branding & Identity category is We & I from Dentsu, led by Taichi Tamaki, Ryota Sugahara, and Miki Taguchi. When rock band RADWIMPS, represented by Universal Music, decided to write a graduation song- a choral performance that is a part of high school graduation in Japan - they were hired to create its visual identity. RADWIMPS is particularly popular among young people, and by using a high school chorus as a metaphor, they created a series of overlapping line silhouettes, while adding a hidden image that could only be discovered with a common study tool.

The winning Student entry in Branding & Identity went to Desert X from Yingying Zhu at ArtCenter College of Design. Desert X is renowned for its large-scale land art exhibitions set within desert landscapes. The rebrand emphasizes the intersection of cultures, humanity, and nature, exploring space and time while leveraging digital technology to create an immersive and cohesive visitor experience.

The jury team for the 2025 Branding & Identity category was led by Jury Captain YanYan Zhang an Associate Partner and Executive Creative Director at VSA Partners. Zhang put together a jury which includes: Kelly Bjork a Partner at IDEO, Michael Braley the Creative Director at Braley Design, and Liz Oh a Senior UX Design Manager at HubSpot.

The 2025 Core77 Design Awards Branding & Identity category honors a visual design system, or elements of a system which communicate brand philosophy and values, visually and experientially--conveying a desired image of a product, company, or organization. Projects include logos, custom typefaces, color palettes, and complete brand identity systems.

Branding & Identity Award Honorees

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4 Deck Furniture Layout Ideas to Live Large in a Small Patio or Yard

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:30:00 +0000

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Arched Retreat by the Sea in Crete

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 13:57:40 +0000

This coastal villa by Entopos Architects is a serene holiday home that blends curved forms, natural textures, and sea views. Located near Frangokastello in Crete, the design uses soft arches, sandy plaster walls, and olive trees to echo the Mediterranean landscape.

The indoor-outdoor layout flows effortlessly, with arched doors and pergolas creating shaded transitions. Inside, the palette is calm and earthy, with wood, stone, and textured plaster setting a tranquil tone. The former well, now a circular jacuzzi, anchors a courtyard with a sculptural presence.

Every detail, from perforated bricks to the fluid pool edges, balances privacy and openness. It’s a home made for rest, framed by nature and shaped by the rhythm of the sea.

The home feels like a natural extension of the coastline, quiet, grounded, and full of subtle curves. Its architecture doesn’t compete with the landscape but complements it, offering spaces that invite pause, light, and connection with the sea breeze. Every arch, tree, and stone path is placed with purpose, creating a retreat that feels timeless.

Photographs:Giorgos Sfakianakis Photography, Yannis Fais

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Greece Dream Home Carved into the Hillside

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 13:31:03 +0000

The Slot House by Katerina Valsamaki Architects is more than a residence—it’s a vision of quiet architecture that merges with the landscape. Positioned on a steep slope in Tinos, Greece, the house captures the vast Aegean panorama while sinking into the earth for shelter and privacy.

Crafted from rough stone and smooth travertine-like concrete, the materials echo the island’s texture and palette. A long canopy stretches across the living space, framing the view and creating shaded outdoor zones that blur the line between indoors and outdoors. Inside, clean surfaces, natural light, and a raw wood dining table reflect a pared-back, timeless design.

From the green roof to the linear pool that mirrors the horizon, every detail in this home serves one goal: to inhabit beauty without disturbing it. This is a place where architecture listens, adapts, and disappears into the landscape—an ideal retreat for those who seek peace, silence, and endless views.

Photographs:Panagiotis Voumvakis

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Thu, 26 Jun 2025 12:45:00 +0000

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Here are the celebrities attending the Bezos wedding in Venice

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 12:44:36 +0000

Oprah Winfrey arrived in Venice on Thursday, leading a star-studded guest list of celebrities descending on the lagoon city for the weekend wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez.

Winfrey’s private jet landed at Venice’s Marco Polo airport. Former American footballer Tom Brady arrived soon thereafter.

The bride and groom pulled into the Aman Hotel dock on the Grand Canal on Wednesday, traveling via water taxi with security boats in tow. A few hours later they slipped out of the hotel, with Sánchez wearing a sleek black and white striped, one-shoulder gown.

The details of the nuptials have been a tightly kept secret, though the locations now appear to have firmed up as has the guest list.

Ivanka Trump, her husband Jared Kushner, and their three children arrived Wednesday.

Other celebrities on the guest list, according to two people close to the wedding who spoke on condition of anonymity, because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly, include:
— Kim Kardashian
— Mick Jagger
— Leonardo DiCaprio
— Orlando Bloom
— Microsoft founder Bill Gates
— Diane von Furstenberg and her husband Barry Diller
— Katy Perry had originally been expected but the latest update had her as not attending.

The wedding has divided Venice, with some activists protesting it as an exploitation of the city by the billionaire Bezos while ordinary residents suffer from overtourism, high housing costs and the constant threat of climate-induced flooding.

One group called Extinction Rebellion staged a small protest in St. Mark’s Square on Thursday featuring a masked bride and groom and people holding posters decrying climate change and income inequalities.

“The planet is burning but don’t worry, here’s the list of the 27 dresses of Lauren Sanchez,” read one, a reference to the bride’s reported wedding weekend wardrobe.

Protesters said that their plans to disrupt the arrivals of guests at one of the wedding venues forced organizers to move the event to the more secure Arsenale area beyond Venice’s congested center.

The city administration has strongly defended the nuptials as keeping with Venice’s tradition as an open city that has welcomed popes, emperors and ordinary visitors alike for centuries.

“We will always respect the right to speak out, but we reject every form of intolerance and prejudice,” Mayor Luigi Brugnaro said in Thursday’s edition of Italian newspaper Il Foglio Quotidiano. “No one in Venice can claim the right of deciding who can enter, who can love, who can celebrate.”

—Luca Bruno, Associated Press

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Rainforest Residence Blends Concrete with Nature

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 12:26:02 +0000

Nestled in the lush enclave of Tanarimba, Janda Baik, Malaysia, the Rainforest Residence by Choo Gim Wah Architect redefines tropical living through concrete minimalism and deep engagement with nature. Designed for an artist family, the linear structure integrates with the forested slope, using the terrain to blur the boundaries between interior and exterior.

Circulation is orchestrated through open-air pathways, where light and greenery become part of the architectural experience. A bold concrete shell defines the home’s monolithic character, while strategic voids—including a circular oculus—bring in forest-filtered light. Brick elements soften the heavy materials, and the use of glazing opens the upper-level living spaces to treetop views.

Concrete walls act as curatorial surfaces for artwork. A double-height living space and art studio spill into the landscape, offering both creative focus and immersion in the surrounding environment. This residence is not just a home—it’s a meditative dialogue between architecture and rainforest.

Photographs:Lawrence Choo, Pixelaw Photography

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45 Ideas To Incorporate An Orange Sofa In Your Space

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 09:46:38 +0000

With current trends for earthy and natural colors, warm shades and boho decor, orange and rust have never been more popular than now. This warm glow, refined feel they bring is a gorgeous idea for many spaces and a fresh substitution to yellow. The psychological meaning of orange is also great: it’s an active color with heightened emotions, increased activity, positive emotions and sharper awareness of the surroundings. Why not add such a great color to your space? If you are ready for orange color statement, it’s high time to buy or reupholster your existing sofa making it orange. What Styles Can An Orange Sofa Fit? Okay, so I used to think orange sofas were a total wildcard — like, too bold, too loud, just… too much. But then I saw one in a mid-century modern living room with walnut wood tones and a shag rug, and it totally changed my mind. It wasn’t chaotic at all. It actually pulled the whole room together with this super warm, lived-in feel. Boho spaces are the obvious match — think layered textures, woven baskets, plants everywhere. I have this friend who’s a total free spirit, and her burnt orange velvet couch looks like it belongs...

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Zillow just turned your real estate doomscrolling into a bedtime habit

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 09:45:00 +0000

Late-night Zillow scrolling just got a little easier on the eyes.

The residential real estate platform announced that dark mode is now available on its iOS app. Just tap your profile icon in the top-right corner, then tap app settings, select the dark app theme, and voilà, you can scroll through listings more comfortably in the dark. “Your midnight move starts here,” Zillow says.

Dark mode has been one of Zillow’s most requested features, the company says, and before the update, the best fans of dark mode could do was use a browser extension that offered a three-month free trial. Dark mode is popular for reducing energy consumption (and saving battery life), and Zillow says it’s about more than just aesthetics because it reduces screen glare and eye strain in low-light settings.

[Image: Zillow]

The reason Zillow dark mode took so long to arrive is because the company’s app has many content-rich screens, including interactive maps, listing photos, and financial tools. Designing a dark mode wasn’t as simple as applying a dark theme across the board, Zillow tells Fast Company. Extra attention had to be paid to elements like color-coded map pins that show different listing types and statuses such as rentals, for sale, new construction, or homes you’ve already viewed.

Zillow has 227 million average monthly unique users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Zillow usage surged as Americans on lockdown dreamed of moving to a new place. Today, scrolling Zillow without any purchase intention—known as Zillow doomscrolling (or Zillow therapy for some)—is how many people use the app since mortgage rates remain high and home sales are softening. At least with dark mode, there’s one less reason bedtime Zillowing will keep you up at night.

How trust became the new currency of brand growth

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 09:30:00 +0000

“How do we tell our story?”

That’s a familiar phrase in brand marketing.

It’s a decent question, but here’s a provocation to challenge this conventional wisdom:

Storytelling and marketing are no longer reliable ways to build and grow a brand.

To understand what’s to come, it’s useful to look at what gets awarded—and what doesn’t—at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity. Based on what we saw last week, the patterns indicate that marketing, storytelling, and, in particular, the marketing funnel, in a conventional sense, have become less dependable.

This framework has long been defined as:

Company builds brand (awareness)
Brand attracts customers (interest and consideration)
Customers buy product (purchase)

[Image: I&CO]

In the past decade, three factors have emerged and dominated human psyche, culture, and marketing: short-form video, people as brands, and heightened consumer expectations.

These shifted the power dynamic between brands and consumers, rendering the traditional marketing funnel doctrine less relevant.

As marketers and brand builders helping companies grow, what we should be asking now is this: “How do we build trust?”

Trust has always been essential for any brand, but it’s becoming a new, essential currency. The premium on trustworthiness has increased as the line between what is real versus generated or what is true versus not becomes indistinguishable.

Here are the four steps of “Trustnomics”—the new currency for brand growth—in an algorithmic, agentic, and synthetic world.

Identify your key product moment

A key product moment is a distinct feature that makes the product value visible and readily understandable. We’ve been obsessed with storytelling and marketing and overlooked the power of key product moments for brands.

Look to the French insurance company AXA to see the power of a key product moment with measurable impact.

Home insurance policies typically guarantee emergency relocation for fire and flood victims. AXA added “de violences conjugales” (“and domestic violence”) to contracts for its customers. It is a promise to help survivors of domestic violence escape by providing emergency housing relocation.

“Three Words” is a profoundly simple key product moment that makes AXA’s product value immediately tangible and morally differentiated. Within six months of adding domestic violence coverage to its policies, AXA provided emergency relocation assistance to more than 500 families. Customer trust metrics increased by 27%, and brand consideration among women ages 25 to 45 rose by 34%.

The German discount supermarket Penny created another example with its Price Packs initiative.

After redesigning packaging to display fixed prices in bright colors and big fonts, and showing its commitment to price stability, Penny’s store traffic increased by 22% and market share grew by 3.2% in key regions, despite broader market volatility. In customer surveys, 78% of shoppers cited price transparency as a key factor in choosing Penny over competitors.

To earn the currency of trust, don’t tell why your brand is better. Show why it’s different in the product.

Treat product as content

There’s a brand that was on everyone’s mind and lips but didn’t win any Lion inside the Palais: OpenAI.

The company has grown by treating product as content. OpenAI publishes product-related press releases and articles several times a week. There is little effort in creating an emotional connection with consumers through marketing or storytelling. CEO Sam Altman understands that products are the make-or-break for any business. In an information era that is becoming agentic, the best way to earn attention and trust is through the products themselves.

The brand that understands product as content best is—wait for it—Apple, the Grand Prix winner of Creative Effectiveness for its decade-long “Shot on iPhone” initiative.

At the ceremony, everyone was hoping for an emotionally driven, brand-led campaign. Quite the contrary, “Shot on iPhone” is technically a product demo, which creative judges and types often look down on.

As appealing as brand marketing has been, a better way to earn trust, build a brand, and drive business now is by treating product as content. When you do this, though, you have to have a point of view and stick to it. Kudos to the Apple team for being highly disciplined and single-minded with their Instagram page and not littering it with product ads. Don’t confuse product ads with product as content.

[Screenshot: Apple/Instagram]

Repeatable system > Scalable campaign

Using Apple as a guide is aspirational but unrealistic. Most marketers and brand builders don’t have $48.5 billion sitting in our bank accounts to spend on huge campaigns, media buys, or expensive productions.

The Japanese streetwear brand Human Made, founded by the ultra-hip Nigo and supported by Pharrell Williams, was established in 2010. Despite its celebrity status, it had modest growth for more than a decade, and its revenue hovered around 1.7 billion yen (roughly $11.6 million).

When Rei Matsunuma, a longtime Uniqlo executive, joined in 2021 as Human Made’s COO, he created a 52-week product planning calendar and addressed supply chain issues. Then, he started Daily Ts—daily drops of date-stamped white T-shirts, making each day’s T-shirts unique and exclusive.

[Image: Human Made]

These were not shiny, scalable campaigns that would see much limelight at marketing industry events like Cannes. Instead, they were repeatable systems that generated consistent demand among brand fans and prospective customers.

In less than four years, Human Made’s revenue grew sixfold to 10 billion yen (nearly $70 million), with a presence in more than 80 countries and minimal investment in storytelling or marketing.

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit,” wrote Will Durant in his 1926 book, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers (paraphrasing Aristotle).

Repeatable systems beat scalable campaigns.

Flywheel of Trust

By the time a business problem reaches marketing, it’s too late. When culture moves in real time, no marketing funnel can save a business. We need to turn our funnel mindset into a flywheel.

[Image: I&CO]

The “flywheel of trust” framework is based on the product itself, which is now the main driver in attracting customers.

Company creates product
Product attracts customers
Customers trust brand
Brand differentiates company

In the past decade, this phenomenon has increased. Besides the aforementioned examples, others like Stanley’s Quencher or Uniqlo’s Round Mini Shoulder Bag became sensational hits without relying on emotional storytelling or brand marketing.

These brands gained traction not because they asked “How do we tell our story?”

They asked, “How do we build trust?”

If we translate this flywheel into tangible action, the four steps of Trustnomics are:

Identify your key product moment
Treat product as content
Build a repeatable system
Kick the flywheel of trust into motion

As the world shifts from the information era to the agentic era, the marketing funnel doctrine is giving way to a new flywheel framework focused on earning and building trust.

Trustnomics is not just an ingredient of your brand. It’s the currency that powers brand growth.

Coco Gauff and Emma Grede team up to help small businesses

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 09:30:00 +0000

Fresh off her French Open win, and before she gets rolling on the green grass of Wimbledon, tennis star Coco Gauff is launching a new three-part content series—along with entrepreneur Emma Grede and UPS—whose aim is giving advice to small-business owners.

Created by The Martin Agency, the campaign kicks off with an anime-inspired spot featuring the 20-year-old phenom announcing her collaboration with Grede. Gauff, who first signed on as a brand partner with UPS in 2023, says she was really excited to work with Grede, cofounder of Skims shapewear and the Good American clothing line.

“She’s such a powerhouse in her world of business, so it was awesome to help give the opportunity to small-business owners to work with her,” Gauff tells Fast Company.

The campaign follows Gauff and Grede as they meet with the owners of three different small-businesses—Anima Iris, Petrova Chocolates, and Classy Casita—for one-on-one mentoring sessions with Grede. Highlights from these sessions will be part of the campaign’s content, which will roll out throughout Gauff’s tennis season.

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Tennis Star-preneur

Gauff herself is a big business. Last year, she reportedly made $30.4 million, including $9.4 million in prize money and an estimated $21 million from brand partnerships, appearances, and bonuses. In April, she launched Coco Gauff Enterprises with William Morris Endeavor (WME). She says she was listening closely to Grede’s advice to the UPS campaign’s three entrepreneurs.

“Honestly, I was just listening to what she was telling everyone else and taking notes,” Gauff says. “I learned a lot about working in bigger organizations and marketing, which is what she’s really good at, especially with Skims. I have her contact [info] for the future, and definitely want to dive more in depth with her.”

Gauff works with a long list of brand partners covering a variety of product categories, including Rolex, Bose, Head, Barilla, Carol’s Daughter, and Naked Juice. Her first deal, at age 14, was with New Balance.

The two most important criteria for how she picks a brand partner are whether she has a connection to the brand as a customer or in some other way, and that the commitments can’t interfere with tennis. Because tennis doesn’t have a traditional offseason like football or basketball, Gauff says it can be tough to balance her time.

“It’s about finding the fine line to make the most of what you’re doing and your opportunity, but also making sure it’s authentic to you,” she says. “Because there have been some people who maybe got too overwhelmed with all the commitments. Trying to find that balance of keeping your career first and not wasting opportunity is very hard. I’m still trying to navigate it.”

More immediately, Gauff is focused on navigating the WTA’s No. 1-ranked player Aryna Sabalenka and the other contenders at Wimbledon.

Got game design skills? These other kinds of companies are asking for them

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 09:00:00 +0000

The succession of layoffs at AAA game studios might seem to have no bottom, but jobs data shows that there’s still plenty of opportunity outside of Ubisoft.

The demand for game designers has increased over the past year in industries outside traditional gaming. According to a Fast Company analysis of 176,000 job listings gathered from Google Careers between fall/winter 2023 and fall/winter 2025, the percentage of postings for game designers rose significantly in several non-gaming sectors in the past year. This came at a time when listings for game designers within the gaming industry itself experienced only a modest, 4% increase.

The technology sector, which accounted for 41% of all game designer listings in 2024, increased its share by 20%; tech represented 61% of all game design postings in 2025.

The most dramatic shift occurred in the education industry, where the share of game design job postings soared from 9.12% to 28.81% of all listings. The media and publishing arena also showed increased demand, with its share climbing from 4.18% to 9.30%, a 122% surge.

Then there are sectors that seem even further afield from gaming, which are also increasingly hiring game designers as well: electronics (rising 2.38% to 7.23%) and hospitality and tourism (from 3% to just under 6%).

Game designers help companies level up

Game designers are unique in the design world for their ability to create whimsy, engagement, and some type of narrative progression. It’s a formula that perhaps no company understands better than Duolingo, the gamified language learning app with 116 million monthly active users, 9.5 million paying subscribers, and $748 million in revenue in 2024. Unsurprisingly, when it comes to hiring, the company actively seeks out game designers, specifically.

“While we’re not actually building games, we see that there are some good synergies,” says Liz Talley-King, the company’s vice president of talent acquisition. “The design elements, the product design elements, the stickiness factor, the joyful and fun products—it’s one of the reasons why we continue to tap into [that] talent.”

Digital learning platform Stride also seeks out the expertise of this cohort to enhance its educational offerings. “Who better to hire than a game designer, who lives and breathes immersive worlds and can craft engaging content for all ages?” asks Nikoya McCoy, the company’s chief learning officer.

She says that game designers are particularly adept at keeping students engaged, since they understand how to design experiences that capture attention for long periods of time. “They play a huge part in the brainstorming and design process,” McCoy adds, “and their creativity and problem-solving abilities are invaluable.” Stride notices higher engagement and satisfaction rates when game designers help create the content.

Using games for change

Game designers will tell you that they don’t just create games, they design experiences. And sometimes those experiences can influence behavior, leading to real world impact.

Larissa May, founder of #HalfTheStory, a nonprofit focused on fostering digital wellness among youth, says that, ironically, the same game design principles that often keep users hooked can also play a pivotal role in helping young people develop healthy, boundary-establishing relationships with technology. “We needed games that would act as a Trojan horse to get kids to act differently in the digital world,” May says.

One example is Crash Out, a role-playing game that uses a Jenga tower to represent digital well-being. Wade Kimbrough, head of game design at #HalfTheStory, explains that “when the tower falls, their character ‘crashes out,’ leading to a conversation—what if this were real life? Could you rebuild trust and relationships as easily? What consequences would a comment or post have in the real world? That reconciliation of the game and reality creates a eureka moment that can lead to behavior change.”

More broadly, he adds, “by making a game analogous to a real-world system, you can see how players think about that system and how they approach problems.”

The future will be gamified

The rising demand for game designers across industries may simply be a strategic response to the evolving needs across the business landscape. So many young people spend so much time gaming that they may be starting to expect the same level of interactivity and engagement in everything, from education to finance and entertainment. Interestingly, academia and retail showed movement in the opposite direction. Job listings for game designers in these fields declined year over year. With more people entering college who grew up using Duolingo, however, and new products like gamified candy now all the rage, perhaps next year we’ll see more universities and e-commerce sites press “start” on hiring game designers.

This article is part of Fast Company’s continuing coverage of where the design jobs are, including this year’s comprehensive analysis of 170,000 job listings.

How concrete homes can create resilient, affordable housing

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 08:30:00 +0000

Wood is, by far, the most common material used in the U.S. for single-family-home construction.

But wood construction isn’t engineered for long-term durability, and it often underperforms, particularly in the face of increasingly common extreme weather events.

In response to these challenges, I believe mass-produced concrete homes can offer affordable, resilient housing in the U.S. By leveraging the latest innovations of the precast concrete industry, this type of homebuilding can meet the needs of a changing world.

Wood’s rise to power

Over 90% of the new homes built in the U.S. rely on wood framing.

Wood has deep historical roots as a building material in the U.S., dating back to the earliest European settlers who constructed shelters using the abundant native timber. One of the most recognizable typologies was the log cabin, built from large tree trunks notched at the corners for structural stability.

In the 1830s, wood construction underwent a significant shift with the introduction of balloon framing. This system used standardized, sawed lumber and mass-produced nails, allowing much smaller wood components to replace the earlier heavy timber frames. It could be assembled by unskilled labor using simple tools, making it both accessible and economical.

In the early 20th century, balloon framing evolved into platform framing, which became the dominant method. By using shorter lumber lengths, platform framing allowed each floor to be built as a separate working platform, simplifying construction and improving its efficiency.

The proliferation and evolution of wood construction helped shape the architectural and cultural identity of the nation. For centuries, wood-framed houses have defined the American idea of home—so much so that even today, when Americans imagine a house, they typically envision one built of wood.

Today, light-frame wood construction dominates the U.S. residential market.

Wood is relatively affordable and readily available, offering a cost-effective solution for homebuilding. Contractors are familiar with wood construction techniques. In addition, building codes and regulations have long been tailored to wood-frame systems, further reinforcing their prevalence in the housing industry.

Despite its advantages, wood light-frame construction presents several important limitations. Wood is vulnerable to fire. And in hurricane- and tornado-prone regions, wood-framed homes can be damaged or destroyed.

Wood is also highly susceptible to water-related issues, such as swelling, warping, and structural deterioration caused by leaks or flooding. Vulnerability to termites, mold, rot, and mildew further compromise the longevity and safety of wood-framed structures, especially in humid or poorly ventilated environments.

A modular, precast system of concrete ‘rings’ can be connected in different ways to build a range of models of energy-efficient homes. [Image: Pablo Moyano Fernández, CC BY-SA]

The case for concrete

Meanwhile, concrete has revolutionized architecture and engineering over the past century. In my academic work, I’ve studied, written, and taught about the material’s many advantages.

The material offers unmatched strength and durability, while also allowing design flexibility and versatility. It’s low-cost and low-maintenance, and it has high thermal mass properties, which refers to the material’s ability to absorb and store heat during the day, and slowly release it during the cooler nights. This can lower heating and cooling costs.

Properly designed concrete enclosures offer exceptional performance against a wide range of hazards. Concrete can withstand fire, flooding, mold, insect infestation, earthquakes, hail, hurricanes, and tornadoes.

It’s commonly used for home construction in many parts of the world, such as Europe, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina, as well as India and other parts of Southeast Asia.

However, despite their multiple benefits, concrete single-family homes are rare in the U.S.

That’s because most concrete structures are built using a process called cast-in-place. In this technique, the concrete is formed and poured directly at the construction site. The method relies on built-in-place molds. After the concrete is cast and cured over several days, the formwork is removed.

This process is labor-intensive and time-consuming, and it often produces considerable waste. This is particularly an issue in the U.S., where labor is more expensive than in other parts of the world. The material and labor cost can be as high as 35% to 60% of the total construction cost.

Portland cement, the binding agent in concrete, requires significant energy to produce, resulting in considerable carbon dioxide emissions. However, this environmental cost is often offset by concrete’s durability and long service life.

Concrete’s design flexibility and structural integrity make it particularly effective for large-scale structures. So in the U.S., you’ll see it used for large commercial buildings, skyscrapers and most highways, bridges, dams, and other critical infrastructure projects.

But when it comes to single-family homes, cast-in-place concrete poses challenges to contractors. There are the higher initial construction costs, along with a lack of subcontractor expertise. For these reasons, most builders and contractors stick with what they know: the wood frame.

A new model for home construction

Precast concrete, however, offers a promising alternative.

Unlike cast-in-place concrete, precast systems allow for off-site manufacturing under controlled conditions. This improves the quality of the structure, while also reducing waste and labor.

The CRETE House, a prototype I worked on in 2017 alongside a team at Washington University in St. Louis, showed the advantages of a precast home construction.

To build the precast concrete home, we used ultra-high-performance concrete, one of the latest advances in the concrete industry. Compared with conventional concrete, it’s about six times stronger, virtually impermeable, and more resistant to freeze-thaw cycles. Ultra-high-performance concrete can last several hundred years.

The strength of the CRETE House was tested by shooting a piece of wood at 120 mph to simulate flying debris from an F5 tornado. It was unable to breach the wall, which was only 2 inches thick.

Building on the success of the CRETE House, I designed the Compact House as a solution for affordable, resilient housing. The house consists of a modular, precast concrete system of “rings” that can be connected to form the entire structure—floors, walls, and roofs—creating airtight, energy-efficient homes. A series of different rings can be chosen from a catalog to deliver different models that can range in size from 270 to 990 square feet.

The precast rings can be transported on flatbed trailers and assembled into a unit in a single day, drastically reducing on-site labor, time, and cost.

Since they’re built using durable concrete forms, the house can be easily mass-produced. When precast concrete homes are mass-produced, the cost can be competitive with traditional wood-framed homes. Furthermore, the homes are designed to last far beyond 100 years (much longer than typical wood structures) while significantly lowering utility bills, maintenance expenses, and insurance premiums.

The project is also envisioned as an open-source design. This means that the molds, which are expensive, are available for any precast producer to use and modify.

The Compact House is made using ultra-high-performance concrete. [Image: Pablo Moyano Fernández, CC BY-SA]

Leveraging a network that’s already in place

Two key limitations of precast concrete construction are the size and weight of the components and the distance to the project site.

Precast elements must comply with standard transportation regulations, which impose restrictions on both size and weight in order to pass under bridges and prevent road damage. As a result, components are typically limited to dimensions that can be safely and legally transported by truck. Each of the Compact House’s pieces are small enough to be transported in standard trailers.

Additionally, transportation costs become a major factor beyond a certain range. In general, the practical delivery radius from a precast plant to a construction site is 500 miles. Anything beyond that becomes economically unfeasible.

However, the infrastructure to build precast concrete homes is already largely in place. Since precast concrete is often used for office buildings, schools, parking complexes, and large apartments buildings, there’s already an extensive national network of manufacturing plants capable of producing and delivering components within that 500-mile radius.

There are other approaches to build homes with concrete: Homes can use concrete masonry units, which are similar to cinder blocks. This is a common technique around the world. Insulated concrete forms involve rigid foam blocks that are stacked like Lego bricks and are then filled with poured concrete, creating a structure with built-in insulation. And there’s even 3D-printed concrete, a rapidly evolving technology that is in its early stages of development.

However, none of these use precast concrete modules (the rings in my prototypes), and therefore require substantially longer on-site time and labor.

To me, precast concrete homes offer a compelling vision for the future of affordable housing. They signal a generational shift away from short-term construction and toward long-term value—redefining what it means to build for resilience, efficiency, and equity in housing.

This article is part of a series centered on envisioning ways to deal with the housing crisis.

Pablo Moyano Fernández is an assistant professor of architecture at Washington University in St. Louis.

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As Metro Detroit grows for a second year in a row, neighborhoods have shifted

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 08:00:00 +0000

Following decades of population loss, Detroit may finally be turning a corner.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s most recent estimates, the city saw an increase in population for both 2023 and 2024.

An additional 11,000 people moved into the city in the years 2023 and 2024, a small gain in a city with a population of 645,705—but one which marked a symbolic shift.

The census data shows just over 1% growth in the past year alone and 0.7% the year before compared with a nearly 25% loss between 2000 and 2010.

As an urban sociologist studying issues related to race and ethnicity, I am interested in how Detroit’s population is changing, and where different groups live in both the city and its suburbs.

Analyzing population trends in the metro Detroit area using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, I wanted to understand how racial, ethnic and socioeconomic trends are unfolding, and what those changes can tell us about the evolution and vitality of Detroit.

Black Detroiters relocate, city diversifies

From 2010 to 2023, Detroit’s racial and ethnic makeup continued to gradually diversify even as the city was declining in population.

While Black residents are still the majority, their proportion of the total number fell from around 84% to 79%.

Other groups, in contrast, increased their share of the city’s population. Between 2010 and 2023, the percentage of Hispanic residents grew from 6.6% to 8.3%, the percentage of white residents grew from 8.2% to 10.7%, and the percentage of Asian residents grew from 1.3% to 1.7%.

These shifts reflect a steady and ongoing diversification of Detroit’s population, indicative of new migration trends and shifting neighborhood dynamics.

A map of Detroit and the surrounding suburbs, with shading to indicate which areas are considered to be the ‘inner’ and ‘outer’ suburbs.

Suburbs in flux

In addition to Detroit’s recent population growth, a broader story is unfolding in the city’s suburbs.

The population of the suburban area as a whole increased 0.73% from 2023 to 2024, but growth was not evenly spread. Collectively, the outer-ring suburbs gained almost 20,000 people, increasing by 1%. Communities such as the city of Troy and Macomb Township accounted for a significant share of that growth.

Inner-ring suburbs, such as Southfield, Warren and others, grew less vigorously – gaining just 4,000 people, or 0.31%.

These differences highlight the necessity of complicating the conventional city-versus-suburb narrative to acknowledge the many economic and racial divisions across the metropolitan region.

The socioeconomic statuses of residents of the inner- and outer-ring suburbs diverged between 2000 and 2020.

My analysis of census data shows that although both subregions witnessed increases in median household incomes, the rates of change were significantly higher in the outer-ring suburbs, with a 37.7% increase versus a 16.8% increase in the inner rings.

The data shows a similar trend in higher education attainment. Outer ring suburbs gained 7.1% more residents with college degrees or higher during this period, while the inner suburbs lost 7.5%.

Homeownership patterns in the two suburban regions also diverged over those two decades, increasing 18% in the outer rings and decreasing 10% in the inner rings.

The data on poverty and immigration also reveal contrasting results.

According to my calculations of census data, inner-ring suburbs experienced a 77% increase in poverty, while the outer ring experienced a lesser, though considerable, 50.8% bump in poverty during the 2000-2020 period.

Meanwhile, during the same time period, the foreign-born populations in the outer suburbs expanded by 24.9%, with increases of at least 10,000 in places such as Sterling Heights, Novi and Canton. In contrast, the inner suburbs saw more modest gains—around 5,000 in cities such as Dearborn Heights and Warren—while their overall foreign-born share declined by nearly 20%.

Together, the above trends highlight the necessity of not viewing the suburban area as a monolith. These patterns reflect national trends, in which many older, inner-ring suburbs are experiencing socioeconomic stagnation or decline while newer, outer-ring suburbs continue to attract more people who have higher incomes.

Mixed neighborhoods grow

Residential segregation also differentiates inner and outer suburban rings.

Segregation levels remain high in the inner suburbs, especially between white and Black residents. While outer suburbs tend to be more integrated today, the rate of change there has been more modest over the past two decades.

Social scientists measure segregation using a tool called the “dissimilarity index.” The index represents the proportion of one group that would need to move to establish an equal distribution of the population based on their relative numbers. It ranges from 0 to 100. A score of 0 means equal distribution across neighborhoods, while a score of 100 means the two groups live in completely separate areas.

From 2000 to 2020, white-Black segregation across the region decreased from 84.4% to 68.3% on the index, while white-Hispanic segregation decreased from 47.6% to 39.9%. Together, these numbers indicate a broader trend toward more integrated living patterns.

In the inner-ring suburbs, segregation fell across the board. White-Black segregation went down by 15.6%; white-Asian and white-Hispanic segregation dropped even more, by 43.2% and 30.7%, respectively.

These trends suggest that while the outer suburbs currently have lower levels of segregation, the inner suburbs are integrating more rapidly, reflecting shifting patterns of neighborhood change and increasing racial and ethnic diversity.

Detroit has come a long way since exiting bankruptcy in 2014. Its recent population growth and increasing diversity show important signs of renewal.

Grigoris Argeros is a professor of sociology at Eastern Michigan University.

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The 2025 Core77 Design Awards Visual Communication Winners

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 17:20:22 +0000

The 2025 Professional winner in the Visual Communication is Wayfinding Way Better: Metro's Wayfinding Improvements by the WMATA Team and including Jacobs Engineering, Entro, Order NYC, Joseph Chan, Ray Yau, Daron Showalter, Tom Proctor, Nick Palastro, and Brian Anderson. Metro refreshed its wayfinding and digital information systems to unify and elevate the customer experience through thoughtful design, better data, and contextual awareness. It brought together data, design, software, and human insights to create a more seamless journey.

The Student Visual Communication winner is Incomplete Encyclopedia of Memory by Kyoki Takahashi at ArtCenter College of Design. This book explores memory from two perspectives: one that thinks, and one that feels. Designed as an "Incomplete Encyclopedia of Memory, the book is divided into two parts: one side explores memory from a logical perspective, while the other delves into the sensory and emotional aspects.

The jury team for the Visual Communication category was led by Jury Captain YanYan Zhang, an Associate Partner and Executive Creative Director at VSA Partners. Zhang put together a jury which includes Kelly Bjork, a Partner at IDEO, Michael Braley, the Creative Director at Braley Design, and Liz Oh, a Senior UX Design Manager at HubSpot.

The 2025 Visual Communication category includes all visual and graphic design, branding and identity projects for print, digital or physical environments such as logos and identity systems, environmental graphics, signage, typefaces, infographics, motion graphics, print design, and advertising.

Visual Communication Award Honorees

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The 2025 Core77 Design Awards Packaging Winners

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:31:40 +0000

Winning the Professional category is an innovative packaging plan Google Plastic-Free Packaging , by Roman Ley at Google. Google's packaging for all hardware products, including Pixel, Nest, and Fitbit, is now 100% plastic-free, fully recyclable, and features innovative materials like custom-developed paper and molded fiber. The winning Student entry in Packaging went to Yitong Jiang, ArtCenter College of Design, for Into You. This packaging uses slightly heavier, 100% recyclable stainless steel, providing superior corrosion resistance and a luxurious luster. Its tactile quality reinforces the brand's commitment to "long-term use" and a "jewelry-like texture".

The jury team for the 2025 Core77 Design Awards Packaging category was led by Alex Center the Founder at CENTER. Joining Center on the jury were Mike McVicar, Co-Founder at Gander, and Jasmine Gallagher and Shy Trutwein, Co-Founders at After Hours Studio.

The 2025 Core77 Design Awards Packaging category honors all of the graphic design, branding and structural designs related to the packaging of products. Examples include primary or secondary packaging for Fast Moving Consumer Goods or premium brands, promotional packaging, gifting programs, and limited editions.

Packaging Award Honorees

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The 2025 Core77 Design Awards Built Environment Winners

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:31:40 +0000

Winning the Professional Built Environment category is the WERKSVIERTEL MUNICH project designed by Johannes Ernst at Steidle Architekten. WERKSVIERTEL was previously an industrial site which has been transformed into an independent quarter for residential, commercial, social, and cultural activities with open public spaces for events and other forms of entertainment. The winning Student entry (this project won two categories) in Built Environment went to Frida Neckmar, Luisa Ebeling, Silvester Koessler, and Xiaoyu Yu from the Umeå Institute of Design for MIRA. MIRA reimagines the ICU as a space for recovery, connection, and care. Its core innovation is a centralized hub that organizes machines and cables, keeping them easily accessible for caregivers while minimizing visual clutter for patients and families.

The jury team for the 2025 Core77 Design Awards Built Environment category was led by Bryan Chou the Design Principal at Mikyoung Kim. Joining Chou on the jury were Haemee Han, Director at Jaemee Studio, Simon Beer, Principal at OJB Landscape Architecture, Ben Peterson, Director of Community & Collaborative Design at Boston Society for Architecture, and Paul Chan, Design Architect at Studio Paul Chan.

The 2025 Core77 Design Awards Built Environment category honors human-made surroundings that provide settings for people's activities. Spatial and physical structures, interiors, exhibitions, or installations, either permanent or temporary, for private, public, commercial, or industrial purposes.

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Plant Futures

By Annelie Berner

Bat Night Market

By Kuang-Yi Ku

No Bounds Festival

By Austin Houldsworth

Arca

By University of Washington

Lattice Gaming Controller

By PA Consulting

TalkTomb by Object Solutions™

By Object Solutions

Standard Singlish

By Cun Jia Tan

Chime

By Henning Birgersson

McBiota

By Pei-Yu Chen Pei-Yu Chen

Beyond Frequencies: Silent Funeral Instruments

By Tzu-Yen Chang

Birdseed: Adapt Birds to Future Plants with Special Fruit

By Shenhuan Lu

For The Awkwards

By Cameron Lee

Memoria Net Zero

By Jiawen Chen

MycoOracle——Slime Divination

By Yuxin Dong

Protection From Facial Recognition

By Zijing Liu

Sacred Roots

By S. Laibi Ali

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The 2025 Core77 Design Awards Sustainability Winners

Sustainability Award Honorees

FREITAG Mono[PA6]: Circular Backpack

By FREITAG lab. ag

3form

By 3form

Aeropod

By Wangyang Hu

Aqua Glow

By Jinhak Lee

Remora - Collaborative Biofouling Solution

By Yuan Hong

Atapand

By Damian Mayaki

KA.MAL

By Nan Jiang

Rapid Autografting

By Wolfgang Laimer

RDHPS

By Chu-An Chuang

REELIN

By Simran Monga

SoilRevive

By CHIAYI LIU

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The 2025 Core77 Design Awards Design for Social Impact Winners

Design For Social Impact Award Honorees

The Lotus Ring

By Lotus

Sora: A Connected Overdose & Trauma Emergency Ecosystem

By Loft Design

Beyond One Size Fits All: Designing the Future of Non-Hormonal Contraceptives for Women

By Catapult Design

Little By Little

By Joyce Lai Design

Routio: Empowering Skills for Kids with ADHD

By Routio

Bio Lumi

By Chelsea Greenwell

Earthquake Hawk

By Zhaokun Li

FloatAmi

By Emma Wosje

FlowSense